National Catholic Reporter, May 27th, 1994
"There is a problem with the knowledge of angels," according to Beneditx, a scholar-monk who, when abruptly summoned for a Worldly task, is working on a treatise on angels. There is absolutely no problem with Knowledge of Angels, a remarkable first novel by Jill Paton Walsh. The problem with angels as expressed by Beneditx is in trying to reconcile the morning knowledge of angels, that being the ideal, with the evening knowledge of angels, which is the real. Paton Walsh constructs the entire novel along these polar elements. In fact, the novel is a masterpiece of balance between juxtapositio...
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